I'm curious about this Case too

After the nominations and awards it received at the Oscars, this was one of the must watch films of the year and so I did just that. I was as quite taken up by the name itself, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. Brad Pitt in the lead as Benjamin Button opposite another acclaimed actress Cate Blanchett playing his love interest, Daisy.

The movie quite reminded me of another acclaimed movie “Forest Gump”. The two are similar in the fact that they take you through a man’s life through a most interesting part of the 20th Century. On his journey through life, Benjamin experiences love, pain, loss, friendship and death the most inevitable facts of life itself. As the characters around him are inspired and touched by him, the same holds for Benjamin who copes with his strange predicament. His quest to lead a normal life, take him around the world and into places one would only dream of going and doing things only one reads about in books.

An interesting part of his life also brings him to India and the city made famous by the movie that swept the Oscars “Slumdog Millionaire”. Scenes of Mumbai and other exotic locales like Ladhak and Rajasthan show the diversity of the beautiful country.

But back to Bejamin Button; A man who loses his mother at birth and abandoned by his father at the same time, only to have him come back into his life in his old age and pass away; to fall in love as an old man at the age of 6 and lose love as a young 60 year old. To experience a woman for the first time with wrinkled skin and die in pristine health in the arms of a woman wrinkled with age.

Well such is the story of Benjamin Button; A mystifying soulful journey through life.

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